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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], March 31 : Himachal Pradesh logged 184 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Department of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.The State has 16 Covid testing facilities running and a total of 873 active cases of Covid-19.About 108 COVID patients have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.However, no fresh Covid death has been reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll remained at 4,196.India continued to report over 3,000 COVID cases for the second day in a row with 3,095 new infections in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. The country recorded the highest one-day new infections in the previous nearly six months.The country had reported 3,016 cases on Thursday with a case positivity rate of 2.73 per cent which declined to 2.61 per cent today. The weekly positivity rate jumped to 1.91 per cent today from 1.71 per cent yesterday.According to the Ministry, the active caseload in the country increased from 13,509 yesterday to 15,208 today which is 0.03 of the total number of cases.As many as 1,390 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,41,69,711.The recovery rate in the country currently is 98.78 per cent.The Ministry informed that 220.65 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far under the Nationwide Vaccination Drive, of which 95.20 crore are second doses and 22.86 crores are precaution doses. 6,553 COVID vaccine doses have been administered in the last 24 hours, the Ministry said.As far as the testing in the country is concerned amid the rising COVID cases, 1,18,694 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued revised guidelines for Covid-19 in the wake of the surge of cases in the past week across the country."Antibiotics should not be used unless there is clinical suspicion of bacterial infection. The possibility of coinfection of COVID-19 with other endemic infections must be considered. Systemic corticosteroids are not indicated in mild disease," revised guidelines said.As per the revised Covid-19 guidelines, maintain "Physical distancing, indoor mask use, hand hygiene, Symptomatic management (hydration, antipyretics, antitussive) Monitor temperature and oxygen saturation (by applying a SpO probe to fingers) Stay in contact with the treating physician."Seek immediate medical attention if difficulty breathing, High-grade fever/ severe cough, particularly if lasting for more than 5 days. A low threshold is to be kept for those with any of the high-risk features," guidelines discussed and prepared in January said.Additionally, in moderate or severe diseases at high risk of progression, the guidelines recommend, "Consider Remdesivir for up to 5 days (200 mg IV on day 1 followed by 100 mg IV OD for the next 4 days)".Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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